voluted
- a word derived from volute.
Example Sentences
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In the western apse, the pilasters are replaced by tall detached Doric columns, and the Ionic pilasters above by buttresses which grow out of voluted curves.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
It closed no lantern--it obstructed no view--and its light ribs, springing from voluted corbels, bore at each intersection, an emblazoned escutcheon, or painted heraldic device.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
She took him into the parlour, where he was set down among strange voluted foreign shells with a pink flush within the wide mouth of every one of them.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
I am struck once more by the majestic air of that opening square of Frascati, expanding upwards into terraces, lawns, and ilexes, all flanked by pinnacled and voluted buildings, Villa Aldobrandini, or whatever it is.
From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon
Conventionally Ionic in detail, with smooth columns and voluted capitals, it pleases the eye but lacks the impressiveness of the doorway at Cliveden.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank
